[Cuog]

While lots of serial interfacing for the motor controllers etc would be nice I don't really see it being very necessary. Yes it would be cool and perhaps have it as an option for easily adding sensors for input, but I still like the ease of use of having standard PWM outs with analog and digital inputs.

The things that I would want to see that aren't in the system now I will list in order of (as I see it) importance.

1) Programming interface: most of us use laptop and they are getting harder to find with serial ports. USB, flash memory, or even network programming connections would be preferable.

2) Raw speed: a few hundred MHz would be very nice and I see few teams that would come near maxing out the general processing power of something like an ARM9(just an example) also having a decent amount of RAM would be nice too.

3) Easily written and read memory: the ability to store and read logs from a flash drive. The idea of having an autonomous script written in .txt and readable from the flash drive then easily swapped for another drive sounds like a very nice option.

4) The pins. maybe .01 of an inch more space between them, I have no problems with the 3 pin interface although some extra space so that pulling one out doesn't pull out another, and maybe a locking mechanism as well would be nice.

5) Onboard Serial. I like the ability to connect serial devices to the RC such as vision systems or even an LCD printout screen(I'm sure there are many other useful devices we could use as well. What I'm trying to say is I like having 2 user accessible serial ports onboard.

6) Potentially USB for storage/transfer of code or just expanded flash memory.